PETER HAYTER

When Sam Billings told them and us last week that the rest of the world of cricket is “petrified” of England’s one-day cricketers, it prompted two distinct and conflicting reactions.
First: yes, good on him for talking up his side’s prospects in the build-up to the ICC Champions Trophy.
At last, it seems, England’s white-ball cricketers have broken the psychological shackles of believing themselves inferior to their opponents, a mindset that, while understandable and usually justified, has surely underpinned their failure to lift a single global...